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The International Assistance Review: What They Heard

The International Assistance Review: What They Heard

McLeod Group Blog by Stephen Brown, December 19, 2016

After completing its large-scale consultations as part of its International Assistance Review, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) recently published online a summary entitled “What we heard”. The review was a welcome opportunity for interested parties across Canada and around the world to express their views. GAC engaged over 15,000 people and organizations in 65 countries and received over 10,000 contributions. The task of collating all the information they received was colossal—and it ...

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PARLIAMENT’S BLURRY REPORT ON ‘FOCUS’

PARLIAMENT’S BLURRY REPORT ON ‘FOCUS’

McLeod Group Blog, December 13, 2016

In early November, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development issued a report titled ‘Development Cooperation for a More Stable, Inclusive and Prosperous World: A Collective Ambition.’  Unfortunately, the contents don’t quite live up to the title. The committee has missed an opportunity to make an important contribution to the process of preparing a new international assistance strategy for Canada, a process which is expected to produce a policy ...

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THE ODA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT: WHAT HAPPENED?

THE ODA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT: WHAT HAPPENED?

McLeod Group Blog by Ian Smillie, July 26, 2016

When Canada’s Official Development Assistance Accountability Act became law during the first minority government of Stephen Harper, there was hearty applause from the international development community. Introduced as a private member’s bill by Liberal MP John McKay, Bill C-293 won the support of all parties and received Royal Assent at the end of May 2008. According to Global Affairs Canada (GAC), ‘Its purpose is to ensure that all Canadian official ...

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WOMEN’S HEALTH: KNOWLEDGE, EVIDENCE AND COMMITMENT PLEASE

WOMEN’S HEALTH: KNOWLEDGE, EVIDENCE AND COMMITMENT PLEASE

McLeod Group Guest Blog by Alison Y. Riddle, July 12, 2016

The lack of public consultation and evidence-based policy-making that characterized the Conservative government resulted in a dilution of Canada’s historically strong reputation as a global human rights champion, especially when it came to the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights on the international stage. The recent independent evaluation of Canada’s Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Initiative that Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched at the 2010 G8 ...

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CANADA AND FRAGILE STATES

CANADA AND FRAGILE STATES

A McLeod Group Blog by Carolyn McAskie, July 8, 2016

In its review of International Assistance, currently underway, Global Affairs Canada asks what role Canada should play in addressing ‘fragile states.’

Fragile states are among the poorest countries—often either conflict-ridden or emerging from conflict. They are unable or unwilling to provide the core functions of a state (governance, safety and security, management of resources) or to deliver basic services to their citizens (health, education, agricultural inputs, economic security). The concept captures both poverty ...

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OPAQUE TRANSPARENCY IN CANADA’S FOREIGN AID

OPAQUE TRANSPARENCY IN CANADA’S FOREIGN AID

McLeod Group Blog, June 30, 2016

By Liam Swiss and Stephen Brown

The Canadian government has been lauded for its efforts to increase the transparency of its foreign aid. The Aid Transparency Index has ranked Canada’s bilateral aid in the “Good” category for the past few years, below only a handful of the world’s top donor agencies. The government regularly publishes open data online, including its historical project datasets and contributions to the International Aid Transparency ...

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Policy Coherence for Development: Putting it into Practice

Policy Coherence for Development: Putting it into Practice

McLeod Group Blog by Stephen Brown, June 23, 2016

Providing foreign aid is only one among many things that countries like Canada can do to promote international development. Official development assistance (ODA) on its own is not sufficient to help developing countries radically improve the lot of their poor and marginalized people, including achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by the 2030 deadline.

A government’s policies beyond aid – including agriculture, fisheries, trade, investment, immigration, climate change, security and intellectual property ...

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THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND BUCKETS OF MONEY

THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND BUCKETS OF MONEY

McLeod Group Blog, June 20, 2016

A year ago, in July 2015, the great and the good of the world’s development community gathered in Addis Ababa to talk money at a conference on “financing for development”. It had become clear, in the lead up to the agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals, that the world’s foreign aid budgets were not going to come anywhere near the price tag. Action was required.

What emerged was an “Action Agenda” that had 134 paragraphs, ...

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CANADA’S INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE REVIEW: OPPORTUNITIES AND RED HERRINGS

CANADA’S INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE REVIEW: OPPORTUNITIES AND RED HERRINGS

McLeod Group Blog, May 20, 2016

In his Globe and Mail column on May 12, Jeffrey Simpson took note of seven major policy consultations currently under way: Canada Post, defence, communications and culture, innovation, productivity, missing and murdered aboriginal women, Via Rail upgrades and the legalization of marijuana, all expected to report back in 2017. The very next day, Friday the 13th, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) kicked off another one: an International Assistance Review.

“See a pattern here?” Simpson asked. “Consultation. ...

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